Overview
- SAME treated about 20 people for heat-related issues after crowding inside the Floresta venue, and two were transported to Hospital Vélez Sarsfield and Hospital Santojanni.
- Officials said the theater, authorized for roughly 300 people, held an estimated 700 attendees before police ordered an evacuation.
- The event featured minors from multiple dance schools, and most affected were stabilized on site by triage teams.
- A contracted private ambulance requested backup as cases rose, prompting SAME to deploy multiple ambulances under director Alberto Crescenti.
- The city’s control agency imposed a preventive closure and opened an administrative probe into alleged oversale, capacity breaches, and ventilation failures, with attendees seeking refunds.